i cant hear movie 720P

[ythnn]

i cant hear movie in 720P
because
the file is MKV ( GSPOT Mime Type: video/x-matroska )
AND I CAN SEE THE MOVIE WITH VLC 8.6C
VLC use codec AVC1
BUT
vlc can't play the sound ?
i think the sound it's ddplus 5.1
do the vlc can play that ?
in xp win ?

what codec i need ?

[VLC_help]

VLC doesn't use external codecs (so if you install anything else than VLC it is not going to help VLC).
Open the file in VLC and press ctrl+i while playback and check advanced information and copy paste here what it says about audio part.
And I doubt anyone would rip mkv movie with ddplus because it is against Scene rules and there really aren't good DDplus decoders for computers.

[ythnn]

codec undf
6 ch
48000hz

[VLC_help]

Well VLC ain't going to play that file. What does GSpot say about audio?
And can you give a hint about name of file you are trying to open?

[ythnn]

the name is :

Happy Gilmore Hd Dvdre 720P x264 Ddp

vln say that the sound is :
1536kbps ddplus

do you know codec that can play this ?

[Arite]

Dolby Digital Plus - at the moment only commercial players are able to playback this format. DD+ is also know as E-AC-3 (as in Extended/Extra AC3).

E-AC-3 is used in HD-DVDs and Blu-ray discs as a higher quality form of audio to that of generic AC-3. If what "VLN" (have not heard of it) says is correct, then one of the audio track in the MKV file should be an E-AC-3 audio track. However, the first thing is to see if there are other alternative audio tracks - to do this playback the file in VLC and go to "Audio >> Audio Track" and see if there are other audio tracks. If there are, for example a normal AC-3 audio track, then use that instead.

If not, then the only option is to try and use the E-AC-3 audio track. One method I can suggest is to demux the audio track from the MKV file and then convert it using the "eac3to" tool.

To do this, download "mkvtoonix" (website here), and open the MKV file in mkvmerge GUI. Using the GUI, find out which track is the E-AC-3 track. If it is the second one down - then it is track 2, 3rd one down - track 3 and so on.

Once you know which track it is you can extract it using mkvextract.exe, which is in the same folder as the other mkvtoolnix tools. It is a commandline application so open up a Command Prompt, and use this usage:

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mkvextract.exe input.mkv 2:output.eac3

Where the "2" corresponds to the track number in the MKV file.

You should then have an outputted *.eac3 file. Then download "eac3to" (get from here) and use the usage:

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eac3to.exe source.eac3 destination.ac3 -448

or something similar. That should, in theory, output a VLC-compatible AC-3 audio file with a bitrate of 448kbps.

The final step is to remux audio file into the MKV file (you might want to make a backup first), by using the mkvmerge GUI - just drag and drop the audio file and the MKV file onto it, and arrange the tracks accordingly. Then VLC should be able to play the MKV file with the correctly selected (AC-3 track in this case) audio track.

Well - sorry that is such a long-winded way of doing it, but that method should work if everything does what it is supposed to do. There are no open source E-AC-3 decoders available yet so transcoding it to another format is the only way of playing the file back with audio VLC.

Hope that helped.

Arite.

[ythnn]

hi
thank you very much,

but i arrive to this level ( picture )
http://upload.dipi.co.il/imageview.php? ... =stostiwot

i don't understand 'what is commandline ?
mkvextract.exe input.mkv 2:output.eac3
where to put this commandline ?

and
ac3to.exe source.eac3 destination.ac3 -448
where to put this commandline ?

do you can show me in picture ?

[Arite]

Yes - that is right so far, so now you know that the E-AC-3 audio track is track 2.

I probably did not explain the next bit very well. You need to use the Command line, CLI, to run "mkvextract.exe" as it does not have a Graphical interface.

To do this go to:
Start >> Run
And type in "cmd" and hit enter.

Then cmd.exe (AKA: Command prompt) should start up. There are a couple of ways to run an application in it - one way is to just drag and drop the *.exe file onto it, which will then display the full address of the application, or the other way is to navigate to the correct folder.

If "mkvextract.exe" in the the folder "C:\Program Files\Mkvtoolnix" then to navigate to this folder type in the following into cmd.exe:

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cd "C:\Program Files\MKVtoolnix"

You should then be in the folder where "mkvextract.exe" is located. EDIT: If you file is in e.g. "E:\" drive, then first you need to change the drive in cmd.exe by typing "e:". END OF EDIT.

Then just type in:

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mkvextract.exe "C:\Temp\Test.mkv" 2:"C:\Temp\Test.eac3"

Where "C:\Temp\Test.mkv" and "C:\Temp\Test.eac3" correspond to your input mkv file and output eac3 file, respectively (those were just examples).

Then the file "C:\Temp\Test.eac3" should be created (in that example).

Then - you want to run "eac3to.exe" to convert the E-AC-3 audio into AC-3 audio.

So, download eac3to.zip" and unzip it into a folder - e.g. "C:\Temp\eac3to".

Then navigate to that folder in cmd.exe by:

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cd "C:\Temp\eac3to"

And type in:

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eac3to.exe "C:\Temp\Test.eac3" "C:\Temp\Test.ac3" -448

Where "C:\Temp\Test.eac3" refers to your extracted E-AC-3 audio file.

Then you should have a working AC-3 audio file. Add this back into the *.mkv file using the Mkvtoonix GUI.

Arite.

[sdifox]

Question, what's this Dump Filter? I tried googling... didn't get me very far. Thanx in advance.

[archangel9]

Cannot get it to convert in Vista I will try XP cmd lines are a pain and I am out of practice got lazy

Ok cmd line not working does Nero decoder truehd need to be installed??

[Arite]

As this topic was more-or-less on E-AC3, I thought I would take the opportunity to say that E-AC3 decoding has gone open source (link here) , as compiles of FFmpeg and MPlayer with E-AC3 support are available. Hopefully, if the decoding libraries become an official part of FFmpeg, then VLC may have support too at some point (?).

Also, the link provided gives commandline strings for playing back and transcoding *.evo (E-AC3) files in FFmpeg, so one of the transcoding commandline strings could be used to convert an E-AC3 audio file for playback with an HD video stream in VLC.

Arite.

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

VLC 1.0 will decode E-AC3 in mkv.